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[list][*][i]General:[/i] As a child of no village, Itsuki is hard. But that isn’t meant as he is cold and distant, quite the opposite. Itsuki feels deeply in all regards, laughing until he cries and his blood boiling in anger. But, he is not one to suffer self defeat or pity. Life outside the villages was hard, and that harshness tempered Itsuki into a being who seeks to protect the weak, but only when they seek to protect themselves. A man who has it all, but is a coward garners no respect from Itsuki, while the orphan who tries to fight off the slavers is seen as an idol to Itsuki. The self reliant and stubborn people of the world can find kin with Itsuki, and the treacherous or cowardly can find that Itsuki is quite a heartless demon.
While Itsuki performs his job as a shinobi of Iwagakure no Sato well, there is the deep ember in his heart that tells him the clan is hated by the village for what they did years ago.
[*][i]Hopes/Dreams:[/i] To become Tuschikage and eliminate the whispers against his clan in Iwagakure.
[*][i]Fears:[/i] Despite being a member of Iwagakure and its largely underground village, Itsuki is claustrophobic and hates being in small, underground areas, but this does not inhibit him overly so. However, fire is a true phobia for Itsuki. Since the raid on the Uchiha camp, flames unchecked lead to Itsuki suffering flashbacks of his mother’s death, and he begins to lose himself. He cannot even approach a campfire with ease, and is visibly uncomfortable around any kind of fire. Itsuki is also very paranoid, constantly thinking people are talking about him and his clan.
[*][i]Combat Mentality:[/i] While fighting, Itsuki is rarely seen without a smile. The man truly enjoys combat and finds joy in it that most can never experience. He is the most alive when fighting to the death, and the more serious and deadly the fight, the happier Itsuki appears, almost to the point of mania.[/list]
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Few people can truthfully call themselves a shinobi of one of the five great villages and have a childhood of the nomad. Itsuki is one of those people. His father was Uchiha Kazuki, the younger brother of the clan leader and Kazuo’s closest aide. On his birthday, the clan gathered in their ancient ceremony to burn items to help guide the newborn’s destiny. First, Itsuki’s father stepped forward with a small, wooden statue of a Koi fish, hoping his son would never falter or waver in his goals and see everything through to the end. Next, his uncle stepped forward and placed an acorn into the flames, wishing his nephew good luck in his life. Finally his mother was helped to the fire from her seat, holding her son in her arms and placed a single crane origami within the fire, whispering her wish that her first son would live a long life and fortune would favor him.
Itsuki’s childhood was typical for an Uchiha, his father brought Itsuki to the meetings that Kazuo and Kazuki would have to decide where the clan would move. Itsuki was attentive and well behaved almost from birth, he would quietly watch his father and uncle decide the fate of the clan, and as he grew older Itsuki began to train under his father. His training was the first time that Itsuki rebelled against his father. Itsuki, in his youthful impatience, found the Uchiha style to be too reactionary, favoring a more offensive style. His father tried to break Itsuki of this desire, and the man was not kind, refusal or disobedience led to Itsuki not eating for days at a time, yet the boy’s desire and rebellion did not waver. The boy would attend his father, but, at night, would sneak through the clan’s camp to his true mentor.
Uchiha Kenshin was an atypical Uchiha, but well respected. He was much more nomadic than even the clan, often times going off alone for months at a time, and he was much more worldly than many of the other Uchiha. It was under Kenshin that Itsuki began to train and learn a style of Taijutsu that better fit his outlook. For years this continued, whether Itsuki’s father knew of Itsuki’s nightly training or not remained a mystery to Itsuki. His father never mentioned it until one day when Kazuki told Itsuki that Kenshin had passed away serving the clan. Itsuki grew angry at the loss of his sensei, and lashed out at his father. With tears of grief and rage streaming from his eyes, they shifted to red, and a tomoe appeared in each eye, and Itsuki attacked his father. Weaving from punch to kick, Itsuki was blocked and countered by his father at every advance, but, with his new eyes, Itsuki did not fall for any counter. Kazuki kept this up with Itsuki until the boy wore himself out, and caught his son in his arms as Itsuki sobbed into his father’s chest.
After that, the clan began its raids upon the Rock Country’s villages, and Itsuki attended. His swift and powerful fists let the clan gain many necessary supplies in the tough times, but no banditry goes unnoticed. When they first met with an Iwagakure shinobi, both Itsuki and his cousin, Eiji, were able to fight off the trained shinobi, but both knew that any retaliation of those men would wreak havoc upon the clan. Nights on watch, the two cousins would discuss what they could do to protect the clan. Itsuki always argued that the clan should seek to join the village, end their nomadic ways and become shinobi just like the men and women they had fought. Eiji always argued with his cousin, standing by the tradition of the clan being nomadic and free.
The night the clan’s fate was forever altered came when the two cousins were on watch. Neither had seen a thing before tents caught ablaze, and they both looked to each other in disbelief for only a moment before rushing off in separate directions. Itsuki rushed to his family’s tent, finding it ablaze. Without a single concern for his safety, Itsuki rushed inside to find his mother inside. Covered in flames, Itsuki’s mother was dying painfully, and Itsuki rushed to his mother, trying to save her but failing. Blinking away the tears, Itsuki opened his eyes, the red Sharingan glinting in the firelight as two tomoe appeared in each eye and he whispered a quick prayer for his mother before rushing out of the burning tent.
Rushing out of the tent, Itsuki quickly saw an Iwagakure shinobi and, in his rage, Itsuki charged the shinobi, tossing a kunai by the shinobi’s head before leaping and kicking the shinobi in the head. Itsuki heard the crunch of bones breaking, but was not about to leave things to chance and drew another kunai, gripping the unconscious shinobi by the hair and slicing his throat. Bellowing in anger, a smile grew across the young Uchiha’s face as he rushed further into the camp, searching for any shinobi he could find, mercilessly and gleefully fighting and killing two more before he was caught by a fireball jutsu that burned his right arm, melting his clothes to his skin.
Itsuki came to tied up in the center of the camp surrounded by the surviving Uchiha and the Iwagakure shinobi, and he heard the ultimatum that they were given. His mother’s burning body seared into his mind, Itsuki argued against it, saying they should fight these murderers until their last breath, at least he started to, then his father stepped forward to offer himself as the sacrifice. In one night, Itsuki watched both of his parents die, and part of him died as well. Never again would he be weak, never again would he fail to save those he loved, and never would he trust the Iwagakure shinobi.
Itsuki fell into the clan’s decision to join Iwagakure, and he was brought to the Hidden Village along with everyone else. His arm was treated, horribly scarred and most feeling lost, but he could still use it. Wrapping it in bandages forevermore, Itsuki was shuffled into a rehabilitation and indoctrination course along with his cousin Eiji. For two years the two cousins were “gently persuaded” to obey and serve the Iwagakure no Sato and the Tsuchikage. While Eiji could no longer speak, the two cousins were inseparable in their course. Both trained themselves, and Eiji seemed to wholly become a loyal member of Iwagakure, while Itsuki began to suffer from paranoia and see the others of Iwagakure as secretly hating the Uchiha. He swore to himself that he would rise through this village and he would end this unfounded and imaginary segregation.
After the indoctrination course, the two cousins were permitted to become shinobi for Iwagakure. The Chunin exams were beginning in a few weeks after their course, and both cousins begged and pleaded their Jonin to let them compete. Their Jonin, the same who had led the raid on the Uchiha clan’s camp, caved and agreed to allow the two Uchiha to take the test. When the test came, Eiji and Itsuki faced off against their Chuunin opponent. Both of the Uchiha cousins took little time in activating their Sharingans. While Itsuki rushed forward to distract the Chuunin with his Taijutsu, Eiji stood back and striked with Jutsu when the Chuunin was open. Within only a minute the two cousins stood victorious over the Chuunin.
Gaining the rank of Chuunin, Itsuki and Eiji were not satisfied, and the two began to push themselves harder. They wouldn’t stop until they were at the top. The two became a team and would conduct missions together, pushing themselves and each other, harder and faster than they could alone, and within six months of becoming Chuunin, they were sent on a mission to hunt down two missing nin of Iwagakure. The cousins quickly began their search for the two missing nin, and within a week they found the hideout. Quietly, the two snuck in and found that this was not just the hideout of two missing nin, but two missing nin building an army to overthrow Iwagakure. Retreating, the two Chuunin watched the scene for days, keeping hidden, and learning the rotations and schedules of this rogue army. After a week, the two planned their attack, and, in the dead of night, they snuck into the hideout. Quietly, efficiently, and with no mercy, Itsuki and Eiji slayed the lookouts and snuck deeper into the caverns. Slowly, they crept their way towards where the missing nin were sleeping and quietly strangled the two with razor wire. After that, the two went on to destroy the hideout, Eiji’s jutsu proving more useful, than Itsuki’s fists, as the place was burned to the ground, destroying all the supplies the rogue army had gathered and killing a majority of the dissenters. Suffering from his phobia, Eiji had to carry Itsuki out of the hideout so they could escape, and the duo quickly returned to Iwagakure.
Returning to Iwagakure and reporting on the mission, the duo were promoted to Jonin and while they still work together, they now take missions alone as well, both spurring on the other. The Red Eyed Beast waits to pounce on his next foe, and hungers for the Tsuchikage position to finally rid his mind of the thoughts of persecution against him and his clan.[/spoiler]
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